A Better Way To Picture Atoms
A Better Way To Picture Atoms with tags physics, minutephysics, science, blender
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This video is about using Bohmian trajectories to visualize the wavefunctions of hydrogen orbitals, rendered in 3D using custom python code in Blender.
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A Suggested Interpretation of the Quantum Theory in Terms of "Hidden" Variables. I
David Bohm, Physical Review, Vol 85 No. 2, January 15, 1952
Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics
J. S. Bell
Trajectory construction of Dirac evolution
Peter Holland
The de Broglie-Bohm Causal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and its Application to some Simple Systems by Caroline Colijn
Bohmian Trajectories as the Foundation of Quantum Mechanics
The Pilot-Wave Perspective on Quantum Scattering and Tunneling
A Quantum Potential Description of One-Dimensional Time-Dependent Scattering From Square Barriers and Square Wells
Dewdney, Foundations of Physics, VoL 12, No. 1, 1982
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